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LONDON: The Dalai Lama said he was saddened that Beijing's state "propaganda" had left many Chinese considering him a "devil with horns". On the first of five days of talks and teachings in the central English city of Nottingham, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said Beijing's control over information left millions thinking he was a "demon". Emotional human values were lacking in modern China, he added. "Millions of innocent Chinese will have no other way to get information except government propaganda," he said in a talk at Nottingham Arena.

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: In a synchronised assault on price rise, the government and Reserve Bank on Thursday unleashed more measures, including steps to temper demand for loans, to cool inflation which incidentally eased to 7.14 per cent. RBI announced raising CRR, the amount of funds banks are required to park with the apex bank, by half-a-per cent to eight per cent to suck out Rs 18,500 crore excess liquidity from the banking system. While the move is expected to temper demand for loans by way of high lending rates, the government is also understood to have finalised imposition of 10 per cent duty on steel exports and 15 per cent ad-valorem duty on shipping iron ore abroad.

MUMBAI: The festive spirit did not end with the immersion of Ganapati. On Wednesday, it boiled over to the streets of Mumbai and its financial district. A few hours after Dhoni's devils stepped out of Sahar airport, Sensex touched the magic 17,000 number. It took Dalal Street just 5 days to travel 1,000 points, its fastest rally ever. And just as jubilant spectators cheer every scoring stroke, investors latched on to whatever good news came their way. Sceptics may call it an excuse to push the index to a new high ahead of Thursday's derivatives expiry, but they were in a minority.

MUMBAI: Even before Mumbai recovers from the hangover of Ganesh immersion procession, another showstopper awaits the city. But this time Mumbaikars won't mind as they welcome the Twenty20 World Cup winners on Indian soil. The cricket board and the state's political machinery has planned a grand reception for Dhoni's Devils on Wednesday morning. The Indian team will be given a rousing open top motorcade reception by citizens after it arrives in Mumbai from South Africa.

NEW YORK: There was a time when luxury goods were made by hand. Tailors and artisans dealt directly with clients, and shopping was an elevated experience. The $157 billion luxury-goods industry isn't what it used to be, and that's a pity, Dana Thomas declares in her lively and incisive Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. These days, writes Thomas (Newsweek's Paris-based culture and fashion reporter), the industry is dominated by a handful of publicly traded corporations.

LONDON: At a time when UTV has just announced its plans to create Indian super heroes with Virgin Comics, it's already got one superhero incubating ? only nobody in India is very likely to see this one. He's going to be born into the esoteric circles of international console gaming, which rarely, if ever, touch down in India. So what's UTV doing with a super hero that's vaguely Japanese and vaguely Nordic, will feature on Sony's latest PS3 platform, is being developed with proprietary British technology, but is unlikely to ever show up in India?

LONDON: At a time when UTV has just announced its plans to create Indian super heroes with Virgin Comics, it's already got one superhero incubating - only nobody in India is very likely to see this one. He's going to be born into the esoteric circles of international console gaming, which rarely, if ever, touch down in India. So what's UTV doing with a super hero that's vaguely Japanese and vaguely Nordic, will feature on Sony's latest PS3 platform, is being developed with proprietary British technology, but is unlikely to ever show up in India?

Tax payers are required to furnish details of certain transactions in the new tax return form, i.e., the 'Annual Information Return' (AIR) transactions. Even though it appears to be a simple reporting of the specified transactions, a lot of issues have arisen in respect of the same in practice. This article attempts to highlight few of the issues being faced by individuals while collating the information to be furnished in respect of the AIR transactions. Cash deposits in savings a/c Information in respect of cash deposit aggregating to Rs 10 lakh or more in a savings account maintained with a bank is required to be furnished in the tax return.

Or publisher's peril It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do," the humorist Jerome K Jerome pointed out in his book The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Which still does not explain why, the other day, an employee of Penguin left behind on a bench at the underground Balham station in south London a 134-page manuscript by 44-year-old author Jeanette Winterson, whose Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit won the Whitbread Prize in 1985 for the best first novel by a writer.